Elf: Who told him to be an investigator!

Chapter 346 The Operation of the Demon Squad

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The man fell to the ground, momentarily dazed by Leo's flying kick, and remained motionless for a long time.

But almost no one present felt any sympathy for him.

Higana glared at him. If Leo hadn't already kicked him, she would have loved to summon Salamence and let him experience what it felt like to have his hair torn and burned.

Ze Shu could only sigh at how he had been bewitched.

"The 'mouth-shaped flower' has a natural habit of swallowing living things or gnawing on them."

"When in hostility, this Pokémon bites its opponent and uses the sharp leaves on either side of its mouthparts to cut mercilessly, while also secreting a corrosive liquid from its mouth that can dissolve its prey. If you are bitten by it, the suffering will be considerable, and it may even be fatal. But I see that you don't have any wounds at all, which means that Bellossom is not attacking you."

"On the contrary, when it nibbles at you, it's expressing its affection and closeness."

"But you mistakenly thought the speechless flower was attacking you, and even sold it to that mayor..."

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Zeki thought of the Bellossom from Team Rocket's Kojiro in the TV anime, which also liked to nibble on him.

"As for Paras... never mind, let's not talk about that. Even if we did, you probably wouldn't listen."

Ze Shu and Xiao Lan exchanged a glance.

Xiao Lan said two words: "Mayor".

Ze Shu: "Mm."

Undoubtedly, the so-called mayor who seduced the man by saying that Pokémon were such ignorant and despicable creatures, and who led the man to sell his own Pokémon in order to buy the dark Pokémon he was selling, is highly suspicious.

At the very least, there is some degree of cooperation with the Shadow Organization.

The person truly responsible for this incident is the mayor. However, this doesn't mean the man who sold his Pokémon is unworthy of pity. The truly pitiful ones are the Pokémon he sold.

"I'll see if I can pay a visit to that so-called mayor when I have time."

"Hmph!" Mirei stomped her foot angrily, glaring at the man. "So what if we're the capture team? We're not going to steal your Oddish!"

Leo then releases Oddish.

Sure enough, the leaves that should have been lush on its head were now missing pieces here and there, making it look as if it had been trimmed by a heartless barber as revenge on society.

"If you don't take care of it, we will! We'll restore Oddish to its original state and give it a good life!"

"Let's go!"

Having come to this city of silicon and beryllium, she discovered its shady dealings. After leaving the man in that alley, Higana was quite angry, and she began to dislike the city of silicon and beryllium as well.

Then, they were turned away again.

"The mayor is out."

On the northwest side of Silicon Beryllium City stands the mayor's cottage. But now, the guard in front of the mayor's cottage scanned Ze Shu up and down, and immediately said, "Besides, you're not residents of Silicon Beryllium City, are you? I've never seen you before! You outsiders should just experience the comfortable environment of our Silicon Beryllium City; you want to meet our great mayor? You're dreaming!"

"You!" Higana glared at the guard. "We don't care about this environment!"

The guard sneered, completely disbelieving Higana's words: "Which person in the Ore region doesn't envy our Xibei City? Get out of here! The mayor isn't here, and even if he were, he wouldn't see you!"

"You've made Queen Higana angry!"

Higanbana wanted to summon Salamence to bite the guard's head!

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But Ze Shu held her down.

"Let's go," he said with a smile. "There's no need to argue."

Higana puffed out her flushed cheeks, then turned away deflatedly, saying, "Hmph! Let's go then!"

Walking down the street, Higana pouted and suddenly said, "Ze Shu, Ze Shu, why don't we kidnap everyone in this city! Then interrogate them one by one. There are bound to be quite a few people like that man from earlier!"

As the saying goes, when you occasionally find one cockroach in a corner, there might be thousands or even tens of thousands lurking in the shadows. This man's situation of being misled is certainly not an isolated case.

Ze Shu was quite surprised that the silly Xi Jiana was smart enough to realize this.

"Oh? Even if we arrest all the residents of the city and interrogate them, then what? What are we supposed to do next?"

he asks.

"Then, then..." Higanbana puffed out her cheeks, racking her brains, before finally muttering, "Then just tie them up! Then they can't treat Pokémon like that anymore!"

Ze Shu:

Okay, this Higana is smart, but only a little bit.

What's the use of this? It doesn't really solve the problem.

"So what do you think we should do?" Seemingly sensing Ze Shu's attitude, Higana puffed out her cheeks and looked at him. "I'm going to do something! I'm going to stop them! Something's really wrong with this area!"

Just then, Mirei turned her head, seemingly observing something, and suddenly pointed to a large clawed crab at the feet of someone on the roadside: "Leo, it's again!"

They secretly followed them again.

This time, Ze Shu did not follow them.

Seeing that Ze Shu didn't speak, Xi Jiana pouted and asked again, "Why don't we follow?"

Ze Shu: "We have more important things to do."

"What is it?" asked Xijiana curiously.

Ze Shu: "Wait a minute."

Higana looked completely bewildered: "Waiting for what?"

But back to the point. After watching Ze Shu and his group leave and disappear from sight, the guard snorted, "Really, do you think just anyone can see the great mayor? Impossible!"

At this point, he looked at his companion and said, "I'm going to the restroom. You keep an eye on things for me."

The toilets in the mayor's hut for guards were quite nice, with individual cubicles. One guard was humming a cheerful tune when he suddenly noticed a shadow in the corner of his eye.

He turned his head and saw a plump cloud of ghostly mist coming towards him, with sharp, white ghostly fangs grinning on top of it.

At the same time, beside this large ghost mist, there was also a cute ghost mist with wide-open eyes, and a ghost mist of oil lamps emitting flames.

Every region has its own legends of "ghosts," and the Orei region is no exception.

"A ghost, a ghost... Ugh!!"

The guard wanted to scream in panic.

Upon seeing this, the "ghost" panicked for a moment and hurriedly stretched out its chubby black hand to cover the mouth that the ghost was about to shout.

"Hehehe!!"

Stop yelling!

Gengar's big, red eyes widened in alarm.

Zeshu had instructed them to sneak into this small house quietly, without making a sound. Therefore, Gengar was even more panicked than the guard who was about to scream at the sight of a ghost!

If this guard makes even the slightest sound, the mission that General Ze Shu entrusted to this stubborn corporal will be completely ruined!

"Ghost... Help... Help..."

Seeing that the guard was about to shout, Gengar hardened its heart.

It pulled out its signature weapon: a brick.

Snapped!

Huh? He didn't faint.

Slap again!

Finally, the guard fainted in the toilet, his face filled with fear.

"Kou Jie~~~"

Gengar then breathed a sigh of relief, patted its chest, and exchanged a glance with Misdreavus and Lil'Hoole beside it.

The dream demon cried out nervously, "Huh?"

Is this really possible?

Gengar, feeling guilty, looked around nervously: "Hehehe..."

It should be possible...

However, some disguise is still needed!

Next, Gengar carefully moved the guard's position and placed the brick next to its head, intending to stage the scene.

Well, there just happened to be a brick above the toilet stall. The guard was using the toilet when the brick fell and hit him squarely on the neck, knocking him unconscious and leaving him in a deep sleep. That seems plausible, doesn't it?

Then, after the guard woke up from his coma, he was terrified of bricks, had nightmares every day, and suffered from memory loss, unable to recall anything else or what had happened that day. That makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

Gengar thinks it's all very rivery!

Seeing that the Dream Demon had successfully injected the nightmare element from the pink bead into the Guardian, the Lantern Ghost nervously sniffed the Guardian's soul scent, not daring to inhale it, but only using its ghost fire to slightly burn the Guardian's soul to ensure that the Guardian's memory would be hazy when it woke up.

Gengar stood with its hands on its hips, looking with satisfaction at the crime scene staged by its "Demon Squad".

"Hehehe!"

It's truly the work of a genius!

That's right!

Gengar suddenly remembered something, and its eyes widened.

Ze Shu sent it out because he had important business to attend to! How could it take so long to deal with this person who had previously insulted Ze Shu?

Where is the mayor's office?!

"Another dark Pokémon!" Milly and Leo returned, a large, expressionless crab following at their feet. Milly angrily said to Sawaki, "We asked the owner of this crab, but he's tight-lipped and won't say where it came from!"

"But this giant claw crab has been with that person for three months, yet there's been absolutely no sign of its dark aura being purified! If we just treated them well, their dark aura would have been purified to some extent!"

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"Take the little meteorite for example!" Mirei looked at the little meteorite that was floating beside Ze Shu, emitting a black glow. "In just this short time, the dark aura around it has dissipated a bit, even better than the purification level of this giant crab!"

"Treat them well—it's such a simple request!"

"It must be that mayor! That mayor said Pokémon are naughty, which is why these people are treating Dark Pokémon badly!"

Mireille stomped her feet several times.

She desperately wanted to take Leo to the mayor and beat him up. Then she wanted to destroy the Shadow Organization that created these Dark Pokémon!

After a long pause, Mirei lowered her head.

She knew that she and Leo were still not strong enough to fight against the Shadow.

But this trainer named Zeshu is strong enough!

Mirei suddenly looked at Zeshu with hopeful eyes.

But Zeshu asked her, "By the way, I haven't asked you before, but... you can see the dark aura on Pokémon?"

Mirei nodded seriously: "Yes! I can see! I think it must be a natural ability of mine. My grandfather has always said that I am a child blessed by the gods."

Little Blue, standing nearby, asked curiously, "Gods?"

Mireille chuckled twice, proudly declaring, "Don't let the beautiful environment of Xibei City fool you! It's all water here, not a single patch of green—I mean, no greenery. But in our Agate Village, it's green everywhere! Towering trees everywhere! And forests everywhere!"

"This is because our Agate villagers have worshipped a deity for generations—a great deity that symbolizes the forest and allows trees to grow rapidly, seemingly transcending time!"

But when asked about the specific deity or any other legends surrounding it, Mirei was at a loss; she knew very little. All her information came from her grandfather.

Zeshu could only turn to the question he had originally intended to ask: "Since you can see dark auras, can you track and find dark Pokémon? Um, I mean, locate a dark Pokémon with a powerful aura from a great distance."

Mirei: "—This is making things difficult for her! It's definitely making things difficult for her!"

"No, that can't be..." Millie said, hanging her head. "How could I possibly do something like this by myself?"

"I see..." Ze Shu nodded, indicating that he understood.

Therefore, finding the device for Dark Mewtwo cannot be done by simply using any detector capable of discerning dark auras. A higher level of capability is required.

And this function...

We still need to delve deeper into the Shadow Organization's most powerful "technological marvel".

"Hehehe!"

Just then, Ze Shu felt something rubbing his feet. Looking down, he saw it was Gengar, its head peeking out from the shadows, its red eyes filled with the satisfaction of mission accomplished.

Seeing that Zephyr was looking over, Gengar happily waved the camera in his hand.

"Goblin!"

It photographed everything in the mayor's office, from the documents on the table to the notes hidden in the corner, and even the clothes and underwear scattered around!

Corporal Genggeng has completed his mission perfectly! There's even an extra bonus—pointing to the guard who's still unconscious in the toilet.

"In that case, let's leave Xibei City first."

"Where to? Of course, to see what kind of organization that raiding party has this secret deal with the Shadow Organization is—to pay a visit as Nadisju's subordinates and members of the Shadow Organization."

"Boss Sakaki, this is Lance."

"This so-called capture team is nothing special. Compared to a small squad of our Team Rocket, they are nothing. We only took half a day to take over the capture team's headquarters. Most of the capture team members surrendered without resistance."

"Only the leader of the raiding party, Black Kung Fu Sha, isn't here. Ha, that guy escaped!"

"However, through interrogation, I also discovered some secrets—this capture team has intricate connections with the Shadow organization we're trying to contact. The Shadow seems to be the capture team's superior organization, secretly controlling it."

"Ha, whether it's the Capture Team or the Shadow, they're nothing more than things that we, Team Rocket, can easily destroy."

"Hmm? What a coincidence, some guys claiming to be from the Shadow Organization have come to visit."

"Ha! Let's show this Shadow Organization guy the power of Team Rocket!"

"I, Lance, will never be like that good-for-nothing Apollo! I will never disappoint Boss Sakaki!"